Wednesday, September 9th 2015
AMD Readies A10-7890K, A8-7690K and Athlon X4 880K Socket FM2+ Chips
AMD is planning to expand its socket FM2+ chip lineup with three new parts, the A10-7890K and A8-7690K APUs, and the Athlon X4 880K CPU. The three parts surfaced on the compatibility list of socket FM2+ motherboards by BIOSTAR. The architecture mentioned is "Kaveri," but the silicon could very well be "Godavari," (Kaveri refresh).
The refreshed lineup will be led by the A10-7890K, which features CPU clock speeds of 4.10 GHz out of the box, with an unknown TurboCore frequency (the current series leader A10-7870K offers 3.90 GHz with 4.10 GHz TurboCore). The A8-7690K offers CPU clocks of 3.70 GHz, and an unknown TurboCore frequency. There's no word on the iGPU clock speeds of the two chips. The third and most intriguing part is the Athlon X4 880K, with 4.00 GHz CPU clocks. The Athlon X4 FM2+ series lack integrated graphics, and make for good buys for people planning to build machines with discrete GPUs, on the FM2+ platform. All three chips offer unlocked base-clock multipliers, enabling CPU overclocking.
Source:
Guru3D
The refreshed lineup will be led by the A10-7890K, which features CPU clock speeds of 4.10 GHz out of the box, with an unknown TurboCore frequency (the current series leader A10-7870K offers 3.90 GHz with 4.10 GHz TurboCore). The A8-7690K offers CPU clocks of 3.70 GHz, and an unknown TurboCore frequency. There's no word on the iGPU clock speeds of the two chips. The third and most intriguing part is the Athlon X4 880K, with 4.00 GHz CPU clocks. The Athlon X4 FM2+ series lack integrated graphics, and make for good buys for people planning to build machines with discrete GPUs, on the FM2+ platform. All three chips offer unlocked base-clock multipliers, enabling CPU overclocking.
51 Comments on AMD Readies A10-7890K, A8-7690K and Athlon X4 880K Socket FM2+ Chips
Godavari isn´t Excavator like Carrizo non-L
It is Steamroller like Kaveri is.
Like you wrote, it simply is a Refresh on Kaveri,
no lossless Colorcompression etc.
Anyway it's not more misleading than Devil's Canyon.
So sad.
In your system specs. So I don't believe you really care.
It'll be exciting when their Zen APUs and CPUs are launched. Stop being so obsessed over a corporation that couldn't care less about you - the individual - that you get upset when people don't say something nice about your company. It's not healthy.
But there are numerous people, buying on budget and CPUs in that segment matter.
And the only thing different about those athlon is simply frequency. Nothing else. Refresh only referrs to clock bumps, not arch improvements.
Honestly, i though AMD would push excavator + gcn1.2 APUs by now. For fm2+ that is.
Now these new models look like 100MHz bumps, but in my mind they are a good excuse to see older models becoming cheaper, and that's good news.
I actually do not mind the FM2+ with an A88X chipset for even medium range gaming, they do a decent enough job especially if your on a budget.
If it performs great, then more power to it. :)
its a test of efficiency and to see if the architecture has improved at all, You cant overclock and i3, but with a i3-3470 is more than enough to run a powerful mid-range or upper mid-range gaming PC.
You could also say its unfair because i3-3470 has 2 cores and 2 hyper-threads but that didnt stop it performing on the same level if not better than an FX-8350 (non-overclocked)
cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i3-4370-vs-AMD-FX-8350
www.cpu-world.com/Compare/364/AMD_FX-Series_FX-8350_vs_Intel_Core_i3_i3-4370.html
cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i3-4370-vs-AMD-FX-8350/2817vs1489
www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-intel_core_i3_4370-424-vs-amd_fx_8350-7
i3's are actually great gaming CPUs. there are a few caveats of course.
::EDIT::
Here are a few videos of an i3-3220 gaming...
Farcry 4:
BF3:
at 0:04 - you can see in the settings that he has it set to ultra for a i3 & HD7770, it looks pretty sweet. performance is decent.
Obviously when it comes to game like TotalWar and such, the CPU WILL die because it hasnt got that multi-threaded ability.
with decent memory and video card, i3's can provide a smooth gaming experience!
Thanks in advance for the illustration lad!
For example my 8320 can easily do 9370 clocks I just dont run it there because my cooler is not good enough.